Symbian the most widely used Mobile operating system is now open source. The symbian code will be released today enabling developers to contribute openly towards the OS development.
Symbian was first launched around a decade ago and many Mobile Manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and more quickly adapted it, making it the most popular OS. Nokia purchased all the shares from Symbian back in 2009 and announced that it would make it open source. Though this transition won’t affect normal users who wouldn’t care less about which OS they are using but it might interest the developers. Symbian is already touted as the most sluggish and bloatware OS in last couple of months, but making it open source might just interest the developers and take it to its lost glory yet again.
Now it is to be seen, if it can compete against much adored Android OS which is yet again partly Open source OS. Time to wait and watch.